Improved peg-float



G. H. OD-ELL. PEG FLOAT.

No. 41,015. Patented Dec! 22, 1863.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES-H. ODELL, OF POUGHKEEPSIE, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED PEG-FLOAT.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent NO. 4 1,015, dated December 22, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GIIAs .-H. ODELL, of the city of Poughliee lsie, in the cJunty of Dutchess and State of New York, have invented certain Improvements in Peg Floats,.

V removed from both the heel and toe ofa hoot or shoe without removing the boot or shoe from the float.

In the accompanying drawings Figure I is a perspective view of the float. Fig. II is an enlarged view of the upper section of the float. Fig. III is an enlarged view of the lowerpart, showing the thumb-screw and clamp for holding the rod. Fig. IV is a view of the upper part of the float, showing the manner of cutting the teeth on the surface.

A is the main frame of the float; B, the rod centrally the position of the float O; D, the clamp, and thumb-screw E holding the rod B in order to secure 0 in any position.

The operation consists, first, in adjusting the fliat O in a horizontal position, when it is secured there firmly by means of the rod B, and the clamp D, and thumb-screw E. The bootis now placed thereon, and the operator remove: the pegs from the heel. Having completed this he then, by means of the thumbscrew E, releases therod B, which allows the float to assume, by .the pressure of. the boot, the position shown in the dotted lines in Fig. II, when it is in position for removing the pegs in the middle and toes of the boot, and enabling the operator to remove all the pegs without removing the boot from the stand or float. It will be also observed in Fig. 1V that thccutting'surt'ace of the float is cut in several difl'erent directions in order that a cutting-surface may be presented to the pegs no matter in what position the boot may be held.

WhatI claim,and desire to be secured to me-by Letters Patent of the United States, lS-

The adjustment and controllment of the float U in any position by means of the rod B, the clamp D, and thumb-screw E, or their equivalents, for the purposes described and heretofore set fort-h.

CHARLES H. ODELL. Witnesses:

JoHN D. B. CoLLER, J. H. OoLLEn. 

